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   NFGman, Dec 26th, 2003 @ 10:07am

   
   

   How can you comment...

   How can you really comment on something like this? The opinion expressed is simple common sense, but the press (and it seems the slobbering masses they lead) lack this sense. How can anything be done? It seems as futile to me as arguing the sky is blue in the fase of fervent believers in a green sky. I get exasperated just thinking about it. Everyone I know understands the issues when I get anywhere near them, I reckon that's all any of us can do: Educate the people you know.

    

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   Aaron, Dec 26th, 2003 @ 10:19am

   
   

   well

   I don't see where the Broadband Reports blurb mentions anything like that....seems to simply be asking a question.
   
   It is kind of a hazy issue. Of course people shouldn't be held responsible for downloading MP3's if it was someone else doing it over a poorly secured network.
   
   However do people have the right to sue others for "hacking" into their networks when the door was wide open?

    

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   Mike (profile), Dec 26th, 2003 @ 10:26am

   
   

   Re: well

   Yeah, the BBR article wasn't as bad as I thought on a second read through. I changed the text of my post to read "could" instead of "should". Thanks for pointing that out.
   
   However, on your other question, I don't think it's that complicated. If you do something illegal on the network then you should be suable. However, if someone is just pointing out that your network is not secure, but you didn't actually do anything, you shouldn't be sued.

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Dec 26th, 2003 @ 3:58pm

   
   

   What about knowing sharers

   I've got a co-worker who knowingly shares his cable bandwidth with more than a dozen neighbors, who pay him a monthly fee for a portion of a service he isn't allowed to resell. I've warned him he could be in deep sh*t, but I still wonder just how deep it will be if and when some issue like this comes to a head on his wireless "network".
   

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Dec 26th, 2003 @ 7:50pm

   
   

   No Subject Given

   In regards to the 2nd anecdoctal reference about the guy who got his hard drive erased (I knew a guy who knew a guy)... I disagree with the "he should have shown him how to protect his computer" statement: It really should be up to the individual, and in a less technically oriented person's case, its better to make the stand of security more blanketed, and at the frontier.
   
   People may have "legitimate" reasons to have open bandwidth, but the average home user should probably NOT be doing it.

    

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   acb, Dec 27th, 2003 @ 8:06am

   
   

   "a big boy done it and ran away!"

   Imagine that, when the paedophile was accessing a wireless hotspot, the RCMP (or respective police agency) were doing a sweep on online paedophiles, monitoring internet traffic to certain sites, and caught traffic going to the home-owner's network from several child-porn sites. The next day, the RCMP kick the home owner's door down and arrest him for downloading child pornography (or online fraud, or threatening the President, or whatever). Would the home owner have much luck explaining to a court that it wasn't him but some unknown stranger accessing their network from outside?
   
   I suspect that it will become law that the person who operates the access point is liable for all accesses from it (especially in the post-9/11 climate), and that someone, at some stage, will be gaoled for an anonymous stranger's crimes committed through their access point.

    

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   Zulummar, Jan 2nd, 2004 @ 9:15pm

   
   

   Re:

   Actually, if they (or their lawyer, or both) were smart, they'd have a very good chance. Mainly by demanding that the computer be analyzed, and if necessary, the hard drive run through high end data recovery / magnetic detection recovery to prove the files were NOT downloaded, viewed, cached, made, etc. on his machine, and by checking the logs of the AP (which most DECENT APs have at the very least connection logging on by default) to show that someone was indeed accessing the network at that time. Even without the first, simply by showing the logs of connections and that someone else was accessing the AP at that time, and could have been the one responsible, you've given more than enough doubt to avoid a conviction.
   
   However, I do agree (although I think it's freakin' messed up) with you that there will be a law holding wireless network owners liable, or at least requiring that they log not only connection attempts, but also moderate activity logging (such as URLs visited, etc), and take reasonable measures to prevent people from using their networks in illegal ways.
   

    

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   jrr, Apr 18th, 2007 @ 3:19am

   
   

   articles on home network security

   I'm looking for any articles by major news networks or news outlets on the legal responsibility of the home network owner to secure their network. If anyone could help me I would appreciate it. Thanks

    

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   RoddyYoung, Jun 29th, 2007 @ 3:41pm

   
   

   I just connected to TomiZone and placed 2 out of 3

   Hi I want to know if my tomizone is safe if I have not put all my available options on sign up with tomizone. I love the protection I think I am getting while offering it to others for a small price to use the service. very good. Please email an answer.

    

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    Anonymous Coward, Jun 14th, 2008 @ 12:08pm

    
    

    JUST SECURE YOUR NETWORKS PEOPLE!!!

     

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    lrobbo (profile), May 30th, 2012 @ 1:07pm

    
    

    Exactly, secure it, doesn't take too much effort

     

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